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Sermon for the Twelfth Sunday after Trinity | Mark 7:31-37
In Mark 7, Jesus takes a deaf man aside, touches his ears and tongue, and speaks one word: “Ephphatha”—“Be opened.” And the man’s ears are opened. This miracle reveals something even greater about how Christ deals with us. We cannot open our own ears to God or create faith within ourselves. Faith comes from hearing the Word of Christ. The same Jesus who opened the deaf man’s ears still speaks through His Word and Sacraments, opening our ears to hear the Gospel and our mouths to confess His name. And there is one final “Ephphatha” yet to come: on the Last Day, Christ will speak, the dead will…
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